Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Smallbot 2

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Withdrawn by operator.

Smallbot 2

Operator: Smallman12q (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 03:44, Sunday December 26, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted:Automatic

Programming language(s): C# w/ dotnetwikibot dll

Source code available: Will be posted upon completion

Function overview: To generate a list of featured articles by category and by significant contributor (ie. top 3 editors with the most edit counts)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot to help generate List of featured articles by category and significant contributor

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: No more than a dozen (still have to decide if it will be on Wikipedia or on the toolserver)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: The bot will create a list of FAs by category and also list the FAs top contributors. Bot will function as follows:

Load subs of Category:FA-Class_articles
Check subs (may work off https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/bin/bin/list2.fcgi)
for each articles in sub get revision stats
check revision stats and record
when done with sub, goto next
post

Discussion

I'm not sure what the best format would be. Should it be like Wikipedia:Database reports or something on the toolserver like cleanuplisting (this is probably the easier/more feasible option].Smallman12q (talk) 03:44, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you're putting the results on the TS, you won't need a bot. Mr.Z-man 05:08, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) Any news? Mr.Z-man 18:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator.-This is doable, but I'm too preoccupied at this time to write it. Feel free to take up the task.Smallman12q (talk) 23:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I originally requested this. If interest in coding this is renewed, please let me know. : ) -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:14, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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